7 January 2015

panivorous

[pa-niv-er-uh s]

adjective
1. subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
– In days gone by, prisoners were forced into a paniverous diet.

Origin

Latin

1820-1830; < Latin pān (is) bread + -i- + -vorous meaning ‘eating, gaining sustenance from’.

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Anagram

ravine soup
nova uprise
a vine pours
open a virus
a nervous pi

Today’s aphorism

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee, and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

– J.D. Salinger

On this day

7 January 1943 – Death of Nikola Tesla, Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and futurist. Inventor of alternating current (A/C) electricity supply. Born 10 July 1856.

7 January 1979 – Brutal Cambodian dictator, Pol Pot, is overthrown as Vietnamese forces invade Phnom Penh. Pol Pot and his army, the Khmer Rouge, were responsible for killing approximately 1.7 million people.